At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide ...
Audrey and Ivy, determined to bring their fellow student Lola Radcliffe's killer to justice, find themselves in the middle of another mystery when a friend disappears in suspicious circumstances.
Catarina thought they'd stopped the Hydra virus. She was wrongAfter laying everything on the line to decrypt the vaccine, Cat realises that Lachlan's daemon code is in the panel of ever...
As usual, seventeen-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day.She's not been seen since.Detective Beth Winter knows that more often than no...
The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.‘Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money’ Sunday ExpressMunch and Kr&uum...
A deadly river collision puts Dirk Pitt on the trail of an ancient mystery stretching back thousands of years . . .When a rogue cargo freighter strikes an oil tanker in the Detroit Rive...
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Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she wants to get the best out of people.Aidan Ryan is strong, honourable, ...
'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at tho...
'This is Robert Harris storytelling territory and is told with equal panache and authenticity. There could be no higher praise.' Daily MailOne the least known but most terrifying momen...
When a long lost friend pays a visit to Maigret's office, he is shocked to learn that the man's roommate has been murdered. With the help of his old friend, Maigret delves into the life of the vict...
He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others.'Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his ...
A wife who must keep her affair secret. A husband who has the power to bring her lover down.A marriage that could end in murder.Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair t...
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22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind.There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing ...
None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? <...
On Halloween night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they've become close friends as well as neighbours.They eat, drink and laugh. ...
The new Kurt Austin adventure in the NUMA Files series from UK No. 1 bestseller Clive Cussler.The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving ...
Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle the growing threat from Moscow Centre, Nat is put in charg...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in th...